Jefferson scientist's patent dramatically improves
...-year-old methods. A process that normally takes around one and a half, two hours to do can be done in 10 minutes in some instances it can be 10-fold faster, he explains. A lot of our science is abstract and incremental, he notes. How often do you get a chance to impact nearly every field in science a......irector of the Centers wheat program. CIMMYT works around the world to help improve the lives of people who depend on wheat or maize (corn) on their family farms. In accepting the award, Dr Borlaug called on the United States to take a leadership role in funding agricultural research for the developing wo...Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
...ng ability have trouble making sense of the sounds around them. Our auditory system doesnt end with our ears, says James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIDCD. It also includes the part of our brain that helps us interpret the sounds we hear. This is the first study to show that people vary w...Conservation Leadership Program announces 2007 awardees
...aximise conservation impact in these unique places around the world. This years awards were given to 26 t...rvation biologists, bringing together experts from around the world....Decoding mushroom's secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels and safer soils
...r of the mushroom genome. Agaricus bisporus has around 35 megabases of genetic information coding for an estimated 11,000 genes. The researchers expect to have a 90% complete genome within 3 years....Cardiac patches stimulate regeneration, improve function after heart attack
... that surrounds cells and is derived from the skin around bone. Though the mature heart only has tiny amounts, its abundant during fetal heart development, and increased amounts are also made after skeletal-muscle injury, bone fracture and blood vessel injury, stimulating mature, specialized cells to begin ...UT and Atom Sciences Collaborate on NIH grant to develop test for major african disease
...ght have acquired the disease from the environment around them. Prominent in West Africa, the disease resembles leprosy, causing a skin lesion that can lead to infections so severe that limbs may simply fall off, and that the body is unable to fight. The disease is particularly difficult to cure without ...New ACS podcast debuts with science news for broad general audience
...in about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment and other fields that span sciences horizons from astronomy to zoology. Those discoveries improve peoples lives, and Science Elements will ...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...itage site, and is trying to encourage eco-tourism around the lake. He has been honored as an Honorary Professor by the National University of Mongolia and has received an Honorable Environmental Officer award from the Ministry of Nature and the Environment and a Diploma of Merit from the Mongolian Academy ......the National Center for PTSD in the United States, around eight percent of the population will have PTSD symptoms at some point in their lives. Some 5.2 million adults have PTSD during a given year, the center reports. Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cogniti...The origin of perennial water-ice at the South Pole of Mars
..., scientists can now suggest how the orbit of Mars around the Sun affects the deposition of water ice at the Martian South Pole. Early during the mission, the OMEGA instrument (Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer) on board Mars Express had already found previously undetected perennial ...Geologists witness unique volcanic mudflow in action in New Zealand
...n populated volcanic regions. Many other volcanoes around the world, including Mount Rainier in Washington State, and Galunggung in Indonesia, are also considered particularly dangerous due to the risk of lahars, according to Leeman. Fagents is developing a computer model to simulate lahar emplacement and...Semiconductor membrane mimics biological behavior of ion channels
...be changed by changing the electrostatic potential around it. By controlling the flow of ions, the artificial nanopore offers a degree of tunability not found in biological ion channels, said Leburton, who also is a researcher at the universitys Beckman Institute, the Coordinated Research Laboratory, and th...Unraveling the physics of DNA's double helix
... the forces within single strands of DNA that wind around each other in pairs to form the complete, double-s...te the stacking from the pairing forces. To get around that problem in the new study, the Duke team used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to capture the "m...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...and Security, is already piloted in several cities around the nation. The goal is to have BWIC in place at all major cities. [Contact: Ron Walli, (865) 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] Biology Eucalyptus sequencing . . . ORNL is part of an ambitious international effort to decode the genome of Eucalypt...A walking robot goes mountaineering
...oS Computational Biology July 13, 2007, scientists around Florentin Wrgtter, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of Gttingen, have simulated the neuronal principles that form the basis of this adaptivity in a walking robot. "RunBot", as it is called, lives up to its name it ho...Cells take risks with their identities
... it doesnt need by coiling the dormant DNA tightly around protein spools called histones. The new study, how...y, most of an inactive gene remains tightly coiled around histones, which prevent the RNA transcriptional machinery from progressing along the DNA. These ge...Research team discovers gallstone gene
...rmans, usually without noticeable symptoms. But in around a quarter of cases the stones will announce their presence at some time in the form of a painful colic. In the end they often have to be operated. "Gallstones are among the gastrointestinal problems that incur the highest treatment costs," says Profe...Brightly colored birds most affected by Chernobyl radiation
...adversely affected by the high levels of radiation around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, ecologists have disco...570 birds from 57 different species in the forests around Chernobyl at varying distances from the reactor. They found that populations of four groups of birds......their families, and costs the Australian community around $2.5 billion dollars a year indirectly. "Schizophrenia accounts for 20 per cent of the health care costs for Australia." Dr Voisey said her research would combine genetic screening with a person's demographic history profile to more accurately id...